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The Problem
Many primary schemes of work impose a very high cognitive load on pupils , both visual and auditory.
Most learning journeys, instead of moving from concrete to abstract, work the other way, from the big picture to the smaller details.
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The starting point for these units is very often a huge, abstract idea such as ‘plot development’ or ‘creating characters that the reader can empathise with’. Multiple elements are presented to the children all at the same time.
While novice and struggling writers are trying to wrap their h...
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What can we do?
- Start by reading different texts
- Create mental connection
- Start by writing small meaningful sentence
- Don't look at the quality first
- Slowly write complex texts and different types of narrations
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What are the children in our classes drawing on when they construct a sentence?
According to linguistics researchers Dan Slobin and Thomas Bever, children build up schemas are ‘formed on the basis of linguistic experience and are used for recognising utterances as interpretable.’
As words and sentences pour in to our consciousness, we become attuned to a variety of sen...
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The Fundamental Question
Why are almost a quarter of children unable to write effectively when they leave primary school?
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Why are some children so much better than others?
Start by reading different books and texts.Over time, that’s a lot of exposure to the same words and sentence patterns. And a great number of them, by sheer repetition, will have worked their way into your mental schema for sentence structure — in other words, your tacit understa...
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Creating the outline
- I don't re-write my whole book for a second draft. Instead, I go through and leave notes both in the document and on an outline as I read through it for the first time since it was finished.
- This allows me to refresh the story in my head, but also see things that I'd like to chan...
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